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| Prologue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | |
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| Introduction: Crossing the Next Frontier | |
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| The Land before Time (Prehistory--1728) | |
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| Mountains, Glaciers, and Innumerable Rivers | |
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| First Steps, Continuing Traditions | |
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| Lifting the Veil: An Empire Up for Grabs (1728-1865) | |
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| The Czar Looks East | |
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| Spanish Entradas | |
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| Cook and Vancouver | |
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| Port des Francais | |
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| Lord of Alaska | |
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| God Is in His Heaven | |
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| Limitations of Empire | |
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| Seward's Folly: Two Cents an Acre Becomes a Heck of a Deal (1865-1897) | |
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| Last Guns of the Civil War | |
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| The Telegraph Survey and Mr. Dall | |
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| Two Cents an Acre | |
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| Boston Men in the Pribilofs | |
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| John Muir Visits Glacier Bay | |
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| Sheldon Jackson's Missionary Zeal | |
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| Untangling the Rivers | |
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| The Lewis and Clark of Alaska | |
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| Juneau, or Whatever Its Name Is | |
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| One for the Duke | |
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| Go North: The Rush Is On (1897-1915) | |
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| Fortymile, Circle, and the Sourdoughs of Rabbit Creek | |
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| The Trails of '98 | |
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| Two Towns and a Railroad | |
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| One Man's Summer Vacation | |
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| Last Stops of the Mining Frontier | |
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| Crest of the Continent | |
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| Copper, Kennecott, and One Heck of a Railroad | |
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| Preserving the Bounty | |
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| The Day the Sky Turned Black | |
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| Interlude: The Calm between the Storms (1915-1941) | |
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| Alaska's Railroad | |
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| The First Iditarod | |
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| Conflicting Views, Continuing Battles | |
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| Salmon on the Run | |
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| Thrill 'em, Spill 'em, but Never Kill 'em | |
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| Knocking around the Gates | |
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| Farmers in the Matanuska | |
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| Never the Same Again | |
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| The Forgotten Campaign: World War II in Alaska (1941-1945) | |
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| The Rush to Get There | |
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| The Darkest Chapter | |
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| No Place to Fight a War | |
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| Victory | |
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| Postwar Rumblings: Statehood and Earthquake (1945-1964) | |
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| Offspring of Victory | |
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| Logging the Forests | |
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| Cold War Standoff | |
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| The Forty-ninth Star | |
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| Oil Boom on the Kenai | |
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| A New Meaning of Wilderness | |
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| Earthquake! | |
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| North Again: This Time the Gold Is Black (1964-1980) | |
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| Black Gold | |
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| The Blue Canoes | |
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| The Long, Long Road to ANCSA | |
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| Working on the Pipeline | |
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| A Capital Move | |
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| The Permanent Fund | |
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| Whose Land? Competing Claims (1980-2001) | |
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| d-2 Becomes ANILCA | |
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| The Big One | |
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| Toward a New Economy | |
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| ANWR--2001 | |
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| Postscript to an Era, Prologue to the Next | |
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| Epilogue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |